Officials haven’t confirmed when the balloon was found but reporters with KUCB saw a bundle of parachute-like material being loaded onto a Coast Guard C-130 airplane on Saturday.
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Unalaska pulls plug on Makushin geothermal project
Council members had lost confidence that the project would be completed on a reasonable timeline.
Unalaska woman breaks the internet with eagles TikTok video
Many viewers had no idea Unalaska existed until they saw Whittern’s post. One skeptic didn’t think the video was filmed in Alaska at all.
Attu’s last survivor remembered for his leadership and forgiveness
Gregory Golodoff, the last surviving resident of Attu taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942, had empathy for his captors before his death last month.
Gregory Golodoff, the last surviving person from Attu, has died
Golodoff was a young child in 1942 when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded his village in the western Aleutians.
Warming seas helped cause Alaska’s snow crab crash, scientists say
Alaska’s snow crab fishery has been closed since 2022 when regulators declared the population overfished.